[OSM-talk] Using editors to indicate license preference.

Roy Wallace waldo000000 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 17 08:34:59 GMT 2010


On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:36 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> and warning PD advocates if they edit CC-BY-SA/ODBL information and
> that the changes won't be public domain.

Nice idea, but the main difficulty I see is that contributing to
openstreetmap is a collaborative process - if you allow for different
licenses within the DB I think it will be difficult to classify even a
single node/way as "having" a particular license.




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